Do you record short GIFs of your product? 🕹

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I would love some advice! As a way to support the written help guides, I'm creating short GIFs that illustrate key product actions.

Do you have any suggestions on how to easily create high-quality GIFs? I currently use the built-in screen recording in my MacBook, then edit the clip in Imovie, and then use EZgif to convert the mp4 into a GIF file. There must be a better way?

Vasil Enchev · Accepted Answer

https://getkap.co/ is really good for that

Neri Raanani · Answer

@ianmc I'll check it out, thanks! Can I save the clip as a GIF file straight from Cleanshot X or do I need to convert it to a GIF file in an external app?

Ian Cook · Answer

I've found Cleanshot X perfect for capturing anything on my screen. Full screen, areas, windows, videos, gifs, scrolling, etc. It does everything. I've not found better.
For gifs and videos, select the part of the screen you want to record and away you go. Trim, then save; done.

Erica Chiang · Answer

Call it old school, but the way that we do it is EZGif and do something like a flipbook animation -- we launched recently and have a few gifs that we did that for using Canva and it worked really well! https://www.producthunt.com/prod... -- let me know if you have any questions about any of those images

Neri Raanani · Answer

@ianmc Thanks!

Neri Raanani · Answer

@erica_chiang It looks really good, thanks for your advice! And congrats on your launch btw, what a success! 🚀

Neri Raanani · Answer

@uffou Thanks! I'll check it out

Ian Cook · Answer

@neri_raanani You save it as a gif straight out of Cleanshot, no other apps needed

Do you record short GIFs of your product? 🕹

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